The 8 best-dressed men of the week

Bar of the week: Clean Air Bar with Ketel One vodka

Every week, we scour the city to find the best bars our capital has to offer. Whether you're a cocktail kind of guy, or a man who enjoys a decent draft beer, there's a GQ-worthy drinking spot to suit every taste.

The 8 best-dressed men of the week

Bar of the week: Clean Air Bar with Ketel One vodka

Every week, we scour the city to find the best bars our capital has to offer. Whether you're a cocktail kind of guy, or a man who enjoys a decent draft beer, there's a GQ-worthy drinking spot to suit every taste.

The GQ guide to James Bond: A View to a Kill

The Bond is similar to the boxer. Either their career is cut brutally short (Dalton, Lazenby) or they go on too long (Connery, Brosnan). Nobody has yet gone out on a perfectly orchestrated high. A View to a Kill is very much Roger Moore's "one fight too far." (Arguably, like Ali, Roger went several fights too far but the man's a king so let's be kind.)

Nearer his pension than his 50th birthday, Roger slugs blindly as a stinging flurry of convoluted plot, lacklustre action sequences, love interests literally half his age and the brutal ravages of time send this once proud warrior to the canvas.

Consolation can be found in the wacky stardust of

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Christopher Walken and Grace Jones, a great soundtrack, Avengers star Patrick Macnee, and one of the series' most iconic climaxes atop the Golden Gate Bridge.

Commiserate? Pretty much everything else but especially Stacy Sutton - perhaps the Bond Girl's nadir - a plot which can be explained in three words - "flood Silicon Valley" - but the film firmly obfuscates with much jargon about fault lines, locations that start off dreary (Siberia, anyone?) and ultimately boil down to San Francisco City Hall, a building which Bond repeatedly visits with the grim implacability of a man whose electricity keeps short circuiting and wants to know what the council's going to bloody do about it, and finally poor Roger, undergoing the process of fossilisation before our very eyes.

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The Girl - Stacy Sutton (Tanya Roberts)

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A screaming blonde bimbo whose true calling is being eaten early on in Swamp Creatures 3, not messing up a Bond film with her infernal racket. Zorin wants to by her family oil business for reasons that don't stand up to scrutiny. The girl has a rough time of it. Poor Stacy is dropped down elevator shafts, hoisted into airships and forced to drive fire engines through the San Francisco streets. At no point does she pass up the opportunity to empty her lungs. Tanya Roberts tries as best, and looks absolutely stunning. But, as a wise man once discovered, there is more to life than being really, really ridiculously good-looking.

The Villain - Max Zorin (Christopher Walken)

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Comfortably the redeeming feature of the film.

It's great that Christopher Walken appeared in a Bond - just a shame it had to be this one. As the psychotic Max Zorin, Walken cackles and preens his way into the Bond baddie pantheon. He dispenses one-liners with aplomb - "This will hurt him more than me" - and obeys the villain's mantra of never shoot Bond if you can drown/burn/slam him into a bridge. Strikingly beautiful, his relative youth only emphasises Moore's age: the casting did Roger no favours. Grace Jones is just as memorable as May Day, Zorin's silent and scowling girlfriend. Ultimately she turns heroine after Zorin betrays her, a random act that has screenwriters' fingerprints all over it. The pair - arguably the biggest two stars to appear in a Bond (Madonna doesn't count) - pull off the Christopher Lee trick of making a pretty terrible film remain watchable. Such a shame they weren't better served.

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A vision in silver. Bond is driven around in the Rolls by Sir Godfrey Tibbett, played by the late and wonderful Patrick Macnee. Moore and Macnee share great chemistry; alas, poor Tibbett is strangled by May Day in the back of the Rolls. Later Bond averts drowning by taking air from the car's tyre - a genuinely clever escape. Sadly the Rolls is never involved in a car chase; unlike the French taxi which Bond keeps driving despite it being cut in half.

The Song - A View to a Kill by Duran Duran

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A very strong contender for the best song of the entire series. Goldfinger, say, is a great Bond tune; A View to a Kill is a great tune, period. Thrilling and energetic, if the film has half its verve we'd be onto a real winner.

The Quote

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"Get Zorin for meeeee!" Screamed by a vengeful Mayday as she rides a bomb into the afterlife. If you've gotta go out, go out in style.

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The Suit

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A notable sartorial moment as all of MI6 - well M, Q, Moneypenny and Bond - decamp to the Royal Ascot to watch Zorin's doped-up horse. Bond's morning suit is medium-dark grey mini herringbone: coat, waist coat and trousers are all cut from the same cloth. The Frank Foster shirt nicely complements the white carnation in the breast pocket. A light grey Macclesfield tie, grey gloves and a grey top hat complete a very beautiful outfit.

The GQ guide to Christmas

The GQ guide to Christmas jumpers

The Christmas jumper has enjoyed something of a revival over the past few years. We're here to help you find the most stylish takes on this seasonal staple, from tasteful Fair Isle knitwear to full-on fun festive favourites.